Melanesia vs Micronesia: Terrestrial barren land — Area from MODIS
Terrestrial barren land — Area from MODIS over time
- Melanesia
- Micronesia
How they compare
Micronesia currently reports 7.56 1000 ha against 3.55 1000 ha in Melanesia, a difference of 4.01 1000 ha.
That makes Micronesia's figure about 2.1 times Melanesia's.
The two have swapped places 3 times across 24 shared years of data; in 2001 it was Melanesia ahead.
Melanesia ranks 14th and Micronesia ranks 11th of 20 countries.
Across the 3 decades both report, Melanesia averaged higher in 2 and Micronesia in 1.
Head to head by decade
| Decade | Melanesia | Micronesia | Difference | Ahead |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2000s | 10.77 1000 ha | 7.98 1000 ha | 2.8 1000 ha | Melanesia |
| 2010s | 8.13 1000 ha | 6.57 1000 ha | 1.56 1000 ha | Melanesia |
| 2020s | 4.36 1000 ha | 5.05 1000 ha | 0.684 1000 ha | Micronesia |
Averages of every year both report within each decade.
Frequently asked questions
- Which has higher terrestrial barren land — area from modis, Melanesia or Micronesia?
- Micronesia, at 7.56 1000 ha against 3.55 1000 ha in Melanesia as of 2024.
- What is the difference in terrestrial barren land — area from modis between Melanesia and Micronesia?
- 4.01 1000 ha, with Micronesia ahead.
- How many years of comparable data are there for Melanesia and Micronesia?
- 24 years are reported by both, from 2001 to 2024.
- How do Melanesia and Micronesia rank globally for terrestrial barren land — area from modis?
- Melanesia ranks 14th and Micronesia ranks 11th of 20 countries.
- Where does this data come from?
- Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations, published as Terrestrial barren land — Area from MODIS. Statizoid refreshes it automatically from the source and publishes the full history for both places.
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About this data
The FAOSTAT domain on Land Cover data under the Agri-Environmental Indicators section contains land cover information organized by the land cover classes of the international standard system for Environmental and Economic Accounting Central Framework (SEEA CF). The land cover information is compiled from publicly available Global Land Cover (GLC) maps: a) MODIS land cover types based on the Land Cover Classification System, LCCS; b) The European Spatial Agency (ESA) Climate Change Initiative (CCI) annual land cover maps produced by the Université catholique de Louvain (UCL)-Geomatics and now under the European Copernicus Program; c) The annual land cover maps which were produced under the European Copernicus Global Land Service (CGLS) (CGLS land cover, containing discrete land cover categorization), with spatial resolution 100m; and d) the WorldCover maps of the European Space Agency, produced at 10m resolution.